Special Issue "Coastal Sediment Management: From Theory to Practice"
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Erosion and Sediment Transport".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 18103
Special Issue Editors

Interests: coastal morphodynamics; applied sedimentology; environmental impact and coastal vulnerability assessment; marine geology
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Interests: environmental impact assessment; sustainable development and management of natural resources (sediment, water, and soil)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Beach erosion is the result of a deficit in the coastal sediment budget. To manage this process, coastal sediment stock assessment is crucial, even more under the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) framework. With it being hard to increase sediment input from the river system, which is actually reducing due to soil erosion control, flood reduction, and dam construction, a knowledge-based management of sediment moving along the coast is the only possible short- and medium-term strategy to address the problem, with or without hard shore protection structures. On the other side, shelf sediments are increasingly used to artificially nourish eroding beaches, but this nonrenewable resource needs to be assessed and managed in the most sustainable and profitable way. The same is for sediments deposited on the updrift side of harbors and marinas, as well as at river mouth jetties or within the channel network in estuaries; a land-to-land nourishment can be carried out through bypass systems, provided a strong knowledge of the sediment budget and supported by stakeholders consent. Under a growing human coastal occupation, and within a sea level rise scenario, managing coastal sediments have scientific, technical, and administrative issues, which deserve more consideration, also to reduce stakeholder conflicts. Papers comprising this Special Issue should be original contributions from the scientific community as well from technicians or consultants of enterprises and public administrations, with the aim to collect and compare scientific, technical, and practical experiences supporting a wise management of the precious sedimentary resource.
Prof. Giorgio Fontolan
Dr. Sergio Cappucci
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Coastal zone management;
- Sediment budget;
- Beach erosion;
- Beach nourishment;
- Estuarine conservation;
- Sediment storage;
- Sediment dredging;
- Coastal vulnerability;
- Marine environmental restoration;
- Wetland reclamation.